A young, local dancer may be reality TV’s newest star.
Quinn Starner, 14, of Temperance will appear on Monday’s episode of So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation, which airs from 8 to 9 p.m. on FOX (WUPW, Channel 12, on Buckeye Broadband).
Quinn is a student at Company C Dance Club and Toledo Ballet where she has been studying ballet, contemporary, lyrical, jazz, modern, tap, and hip hop.
In this week’s callbacks episode, Quinn battles it out at “The Academy” in Los Angeles.
During “The Academy” round, the SYTYCD All-Stars — notable past contestants from the show — meet the young dancers and decide which 10 contestants will earn a spot to be their partner.
Recovering
EDMONTON — Meat Loaf is “responsive and recovering well” after collapsing onstage Thursday night in Canada, according to his representative.
The 68-year-old rock singer, whose real name is Marvin Lee Aday, was singing his hit “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” near the end of a concert at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton when he dropped his microphone and fell to the floor, the Associated Press reported.
Videos posted on social media appeared to capture the moment, including the response by members of the singer’s band and crew.
Concert-goers were asked to leave the venue, according to the Associated Press, and Meat Loaf was taken to a nearby hospital. There, he underwent “routine tests,” and his vital signs were found to be “stable and normal,” his publicist, Caitlin DeForest, said early Friday.
The episode, DeForest added, was the result of “severe dehydration.”
The singer has said he suffers from asthma and a medical condition that causes an irregular heartbeat.
Aguilera to help victims
Pop star Christina Aguilera has released a new song, “Change,” following Sunday’s mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub.
The singer posted a lyric video of the song and a statement on her website on Thursday, which said that she wants to be a part of the change the world needs to be more inclusive.
The song features lyrics about waiting for hope and change and “waiting for the day when hate is lost and love is found.” The statement says proceeds from U.S. downloads through Sept. 14 will go to the National Compassion Fund to benefit the victims and their families.
Singer songwriter Melissa Etheridge also wrote a song called “Pulse,” after the name of the club where 49 people were killed and dozens more injured.
Lawler, girlfriend arrested
MEMPHIS — Police in Tennessee say wrestler Jerry “The King” Lawler and his girlfriend have been arrested on charges of domestic violence.
Officers arrested Lawler, 66, and Lauryn McBride, 27, after responding to a call at Lawler’s home Thursday night in East Memphis.
News outlets cited an arrest affidavit that says the couple told officers an argument turned violent. McBride said Lawler hit her on the head and pushed her against the stove. Lawler said McBride scratched his face and kicked him in the groin. Both are set to be in court on Monday.
DiCaprio faces questioning
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A federal judge says actor Leonardo DiCaprio can be questioned for litigation stemming from The Wolf of Wall Street.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Locke, in Central Islip, New York, issued the ruling Thursday in a lawsuit brought by Andrew Greene against Paramount Pictures Corp. and others in 2014.
Greene contends that the portrayal of a character who engaged in illegal and morally questionable acts in the 2013 film defames him. He is seeking over $50 million. Paramount says the character is a fictional composite.
DiCaprio portrayed Jordan Belfort, a swindler who cost investors millions of dollars in the 1990s.
First Published June 18, 2016, 4:00 a.m.
